shadow
Example Sentences
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How to navigate what R360 calls “big shadow syndrome,” where your parents or grandparents created significant wealth and, with it, an overwhelming fear of failure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The lower courts would assume they still had to follow that precedent until it was overruled, rather than guess what a cryptic shadow docket order meant.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
But for many, Los Angeles has become hopelessly unaffordable, which cast a shadow over so much.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the shadow docket, and the justices’ increasingly public intramural snipings and gripes.
From Slate • May 30, 2026
As we approach Jack’s house, I spot a homeless man lurking in the shadow of the entryway.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Vocabulary lists containing shadow
Black and Gray
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath
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